Complicated prayers

Today, I rode my bicycle to the second day of a two-day meeting. I was going to ride here yesterday as well, but the thunderstorms canceled that plan. There might be more storms this afternoon, but hopefully that won’t screw up my ride home.

Local news cameraman and awesome blogger Bryan Frank (aka beFrank) is in a truck heading toward Texas and Hurricane Rita. He describes the juxtaposition between being excited about a big news story and horrified by the possibility of it actually happening in a post today: Now I lay me down to sleep…

I’ve got a simple goal. I want to get to where our story will be and put it on television for the viewers… and I want to do it safely and when the job is done, I want to come home.